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plans for the clubhouse became more pretentious, more 

 people joined in and over a two-year period, from April, 

 1 95 1, until as I write this in August, 1953, twenty-one men 

 were invited to join, sixteen of whom accepted. One man 

 offered me as much as $50,000 to get him in; another went 

 into Talara and tried to buy his way in for $ 10,000.00; twice 

 I was offered $10,000.00 at luncheon, on another occasion 

 $ 1 0,000.00 before lunch, during the meal, and afterward from 

 an importunate aspirant. Many people naturally wanted to 

 join but the aim was to restrict membership to a particularly 

 fine crowd— above all, a congenial group. Following is a list 

 of the members and the order in which they joined: Enrique 

 Pardo of Lima, Peru, who is president; Alfred C. Glassell, Jr., 

 of Houston, Texas; Jamie Llavallol of Buenos Aires, Argen- 

 tina; M. C. Gale of New York City; Tony Hulman of Terre 

 Haute, Indiana; Raymondo de Castro Maya of Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil; S. Kip Farrington, Jr., of East Hampton, New York; 

 Julian Crandall of Ashaway, Rhode Island; William K. Car- 

 penter of Wilmington, Delaware; Wendell Anderson of 

 Detroit, Michigan; Arvard Carlander of Stockholm, Sweden; 

 James M. Hutton, Jr., of Cincinnati, Ohio; John M. Olin of 

 East Alton, Illinois; Northrup R. Knox of Buffalo, New 

 York; Douglas Huston of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Chapin 

 M. Kreck of East Hampton, New York. All save the presi- 

 dent are vice-presidents except for Gale who also serves as 

 treasurer. 



I had the honor of personally picking all these men my- 

 self and we're fortunate to have two or three younger ones 

 who will carry on after us. Additional members from the 

 South American countries who are so near the scene of 



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